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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Rep. Nan Hayworth sent a letter to President Obama today, asking for Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties to be included in the disaster declaration issued earlier today. At the same time, the NY-19 Republican voiced support for the call by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor that any additional disaster funding be offset by spending More »

It’s only three days since Irene and legislators are now starting with the accusations and recriminations against utility companies they feel have been slow to restore power, specifically NYSEG which serves much of the Mid-Hudson area and the Catskills (which were heavily damaged). There’s little doubt that tempers in some places will be frayed by […] More »

For months, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin has been mulling a run for mayor of New York City. But if that doesn’t work out, he could always run in his mom’s hometown. During a visit to the New York State Fair to help promote his mother’s charity, The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, More »

This is why there are no one-handed economists. Earlier today the Fiscal Policy Institute put out a report noting that one in seven New Yorkers remains jobless after the 2008 crash and now the Rockefeller Institute, part of SUNY’s Rockefeller College is out with its report showing that the Empire State has actually out-performed many […] More »

PRATTSVILLE — After walking down Main Street here, past the destroyed homes and businesses, top federal officials accompanied by Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that three days after floods from Tropical Storm Irene washed away this community, it will rebuild. “We’re not here just for the short run,” said W. Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal […] More »

Assemblyman Mike Spano, D-Yonkers, called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today to release their findings of a reconnaissance study that they conducted on flooding in Yonkers. Spano, who is running for mayor and faces two Democratic primary challengers, said that the time for studies is over and that action needs to be taken. […] More »

Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-Mount Kisco, stopped in her backyard today to speak before a joint meeting of the Mount Kisco Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce and Lions Club inside the Holiday Inn. She was greeted outside the Holiday Inn by about 30 demonstrators (not all are visible in the photo) from the Working Families Party; […] More »

Gov. Cuomo said today that damage from Hurricane Irene will top $1 billion in the state – the first time he has put a dollar figure on damage from the storm that drenched nearly the entire state over the weekend.
“On the numbers, on the damage, wh… More »

Gov. Cuomo said today that damage from Hurricane Irene will top $1 billion in the state – the first time he has put a dollar figure on damage from the storm that drenched nearly the entire state over the weekend.
“On the numbers, on the damage, wh… More »

Gov. Cuomo said today that damage from Hurricane Irene will top $1 billion in the state – the first time he has put a dollar figure on damage from the storm that drenched nearly the entire state over the weekend.
“On the numbers, on the damage, wh… More »

Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday that damage from Hurricane Irene will top $1 billion in the state – the first time he has put a dollar figure on damage from the storm that drenched nearly the entire state over the weekend.
“On the numbers, on the damage… More »

AG Eric Schneiderman’s battle with the Obama administration over his refusal to agree to a $20 billion mortgage crisis settlement with big banks has become a rallying point for the disaffected left. Schneiderman, who has long been a darling of the progressive set, has picked up support from a wide variety of liberal stalwarts – More »

Appearing at a press conference today with federal officials in Greene County, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tropical Storm Irene caused close to $1 billion, his administration’s first cost estimate since the storm hit Sunday. Flanked by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, Cuomo laid out the damage like this: “Over […] More »

More New York counties may be added to the eight that were put on FEMA’s disaster list this morning, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate just told a fairly boisterous crowd in the hard-hit Catskill community of Prattsville. Fugate appeared in Prattsville, Greene County, which following several newspapers accounts during the past few days has become the […] More »

Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman took to cyberspace yesterday to formally endorse the three-year pay raise proposal approved last week by the Judicial Compensation Commission. Lippman acknowledged in a video address to the judiciary that after going without an increase since January 1995, New York’s judges were hoping for something higher than the 27.3 percent bump More »

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